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wholly given up to pasture. We saw a fine chap. 
breed of sheep here; but, as usual, it was > 
mixed with a very bad sort. 
As we proceeded, the high range of Rho- Rhodope. 
DOPE was still upon our left, consisting of 
denuded mountains. They are c?Med Karowlan; 
and the plain here bears the name of Tchouagi- 
larkir. Our road was due east. We met several 
rough-looking fellows, who were all armed, and 
came towards us, firing off their tophaikes. We 
expected some interruption from them ; but 
they contented themselves with questioning the 
Tchohodar, who, with a large ataghan, and two 
loaded pistols in his girdle, held his carabine 
cocked the whole time he was answering them. 
At the distance of two hours and a half from 
Gymmergine, to which town we were going, we 
rode through a river, called Kuru-tchi: it is Rivej 
considerabb only during heavy floods. The 
ne diminue jamais, &c. lis y peschent moult graude quantity de 
petits poissons semblables aux Abies, que les Grecs de Bouron nom- 
ment Lilinga, et a Constantinople Licorini. C'est celuy que Galien a 
nomm^ Lentiscus, Les Parisiens vne Vandoise, et aux autres pays vn 
Dart." {Belon. Observat. i;c. en Grece, c. 60. /. 61. Paris, 1555.) 
And in chap. 62, he says, " Le Lac Bistonius, qui maintenant est 
appell^ Bouron, duquel Aristote, au huittiesme livre des animaux, 
trezienae Chapitre, a parl^ en ceste maniere — ' Quineliam maritimis 
Lacubtts genera plura piscium marinorum gigni aperlum est, et in 
BisroNiDi Lacu plurima genera habentur.' " Ibid, 
